Quoting Chris Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Rid you Freevo of all noise: > > 1. Buy a fanless epia > 2. Buy a fanless psu, http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/it.A/id.222/.f?category=13 > 3. Net boot or boot off of a cf card or usb drive >
I'll pass on the EPIA. the fanless boards are unbelievably slow, and i prefer to be able to play things like H.264 on my Freevo system. Even the en-fanned, very loud EPIA boards are really, really slow. I've also personally seen 3 EPIA-M10000's die right on my desk at work. I am not a fan of VIA boards after having worked at a company that shipped a few thousand of them. I think the division of VIA that makes the EPIA just doesn't get it. They want to position the board for multimedia, embedded, and industrial use - but it's multimedia capabilities are sub par at best, they're not reliable enough for embedded use, and they don't keep a board on the market long enough for anyone to trust it as an industrial solution. I am also not a fan of the power supplies that you end up using in mini-itx cases. Not all power supplies work well with all boards, and the quality control can be somewhat lacking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
